Quote Originally Posted by Боб Уайтман View Post
And here (in Russia), many people still use "England" to name the entire UK. It is very common at least in my country.
In Russia many people don't know what UK and Great Britain are. So they use the name Англия. It's a long tradition of ignorance.

Recently I heard someone saying New Zealand is part of British Dominion, instead of the Commonwealth.... etc .. etc.... Isn't 'dominion' a colonialism epoch term???

A Canadian showed us a Canadian dollar bill and a Russian man (technical PhD, very educated senior man) was surprised to see the British Queen on the money. I told him Канада входит в Содружество, он улыбнулся и спросил, в какое содружество...., so such examples abound here.